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| Afghanistan |
| Kandahar kaboomed again |
| 2010-03-15 |
| A powerful blast has left a Pakistani construction worker killed and six of his compatriots wounded in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar. The bomb hit a vehicle carrying CITA group, a Pakistani construction firm, on a road close to Pakistan's consulate in a district in the eastern part of the city early Sunday, a Press TV correspondent reported. Last week, five other employees of the same firm were killed by militants in Kandahar. The news comes a few hours after seven coordinated explosions, four bomber attacks and three improvised bomb blasts, in Kandahar left 35 people killed and 100 others injured in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland. The governor of Kandahar province, Tooryalai Wesa, told reporters at a press conference that seven Afghan policemen were killed and eight others injured in the attacks. Ahmed Wali Karzai, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother and a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said the prison was the main target of the Saturday blast, but no prisoners escaped. Taliban's spokesman, known as Yousof Ahmadi, said in a phone call the attacks were a response to the commanders of foreign forces who said Kandahar would be the next target in US-led operations. "We are absolutely going to secure Kandahar," McChrystal, the head of US and international forces in Afghanistan said earlier. The US commander noted "we are already doing a lot of operations in Kandahar but it is our intent under (Afghan) President (Hamid) Karzai's direction to make an even greater effort there." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM/OTHER > TALIBAN MEANT KANDAHAR BOMBINGS AS A WARNING TO NATO, + TALIBAN: WE ARE READY FOR ANY NEW OFFENSIVE. * TOPIX > TALIBAN, LeT EYEING INDIA FOR TERROR STRIKES. * Also, NEWS KERALA > LeT, INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN MAY ATTACK KOCHI. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-03-15 02:16 |